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Month: June 2019

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I Hear You

Posted on June 28, 2019 / 0 Comment

I hear you.Do you hear me?My lament and my devotion?You are breathless and nocturnalin a room next to mine.Before the valley door towers the guard of Janus.He d...

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I Will Cry For These Memories

Posted on June 26, 2019 / 0 Comment

I will cry for these memories–and the flickering light that cast our dance in shadows.How will you know me then?By my eyes?How will I know you then?By you...

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I Had Probed the Dark Sky

Posted on June 25, 2019 / 0 Comment

I had probed the dark skyfor words for youand there were none–starlings flown to valleys verdentand yet unexplored.Such is the coin of eloquencebequeathed...

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This Will Be a Summer

Posted on June 20, 2019 / 0 Comment

This will be a summerof hot dreams and playful nights.Every of your thousand inches will be touched and known.I’ll read them like pages from a fairy-tale ...

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Before Reading Any Bit of News

Posted on June 20, 2019 / 0 Comment

(repeat the following) The world is headed toward something.Catastrophe? Maybe not.Perhaps all the good people of the worldwill turn it all around. Perhaps. But...

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I First Saw You Play a Violin

Posted on June 15, 2019 / 0 Comment

I first saw you play a violinlike a cattail on a virgin wind. You were only an outline then. Tracing clouds with your eyesonly later did I see,and petals with a...

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I Thought the Night’s Solitude Over

Posted on June 10, 2019 / 0 Comment

I thought the night’s solitude over,on the forest’s edge where only I can go.I proffered my question to angels, towering above the trees,more ancien...

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The Days Are Filled with You

Posted on June 9, 2019 / 0 Comment

The days are filled with you; the night, too.ever-growing, my vines grow into you.Taut against your blossoms, over your valleys,I caress you like a fog, water a...

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We Are the Stories We Tell

Posted on June 7, 2019 / 0 Comment

We are the stories we tell–Even this onewe weave together. Our beautiful wordsdance with each otherand our love multiplies.

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This Sun

Posted on June 6, 2019 / 4 Comments

This sun, this moon, this moss-covered womb from which love awakes. To know you now, (Why not then? But still … now!) The butterflies have multiplied. I catch t...

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Brad Severance
Brad Severance

I'm a photographer, poet, artist, Francophile, and avid reader.

Current Projects

2022 Photo Journey

To practice and improve my photography, I take a photo a day.
Check it out here: 2022 Photo Journey

A French Word a Day for 100 Days

To practice and improve my French, I’m picking a word a day and writing three sentences containing that word.
Check it out here: A French Word a Day for 100 Days

Stuff I’m Reading Now

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” —Joseph Addison
Don’t get flabby! Read everyday. See what I’ve read in 2021 here.

Upstream by Mary Oliver
Essays by one of the most popular poets of the modern era.

The Fall by Albert Camus

The Fall by Albert Camus 
A confession for the modern man.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
The third novel of the immortal series that everyone has read except me.

Book of Hours by Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. by Anita Barrows & Joanna Macy
Inspired love poems to God.

Past Projects

The 2021 Painting & Poetry Project

Each week, my painter, Addie, and I will choose a theme upon which to write and paint. We have many exciting topics to explore, and we are excited to share our work.
Check it out here: The 2021 Painting & Poetry Project

2021 Photo Journey

To practice and improve my photography, I take a photo a day.
Check it out here: 2021 Photo Journey

The 30 Day Poetry & Painting Challenge

Each day, for 30 days, my painter, Addie, and I selected a poem (from the public domain). I wrote a poem and she painted a painting inspired by that poem. The result was an outpouring of creative energy.
Check it out here: The 30 Day Poetry & Painting Challenge

2020 Photo Journey

To practice and improve my photography, I took a photo a day for an entire year.
Check it out here: 2020 Photo Journey

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